I have been a long-time reader of both UseIt.com and Web Pages That Suck. Both concentrate on what’s called web usability. Web usability can be defined by answering a simple question: How easy is it to use your web site? A large portion of ease of use comes from your selection of colors and fonts. Color: Foreground and Background Black on white is always...

The human eye can see around 7 million colors. And that’s a rough best-guess number because no one truly knows the exact amount. Your immediate thought might be, "But my monitor is rated to display 16.7 million colors (like this one). That’s more than double what my eye can see. Isn’t it physically impossible for the human eye to see them...

If you’re like most computer users, you’re using an LCD monitor as your primary computer display. And you’ve probably adjusted your monitor settings as best you could, but it still doesn’t “look right”. Some hues appear too blue while others appear too red, or maybe the black looks like a dark gray at best. I will say up front...

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